Ian's next task is to deal with Universal Web; he must find a way to completely cut off the entire Milky Way Galaxy connection to the World Wide Web, in order to prevent more information from falling into the ears of those Tenth Tier gods.
Ian looked at the knowledge he had just acquired about Magic Network and fell into deep thought. "Designing a Signal Jammer from scratch is too time-consuming, so I decided to change my mind."
He retrieved information about Charles·Wentworth. While Charles was imprisoned, Empire had been secretly monitoring his Soul Dimension to collect more data about his heaven-defying abilities.
"I can completely reproduce a similar version of the heaven-defying ability," Ian muttered to himself after analyzing all the data. He closed his eyes and activated the plunder from Astaroth Time Magic came. He projected his mind and consciousness into the future, trying to "bring" the blueprints for constructing "Universal Web Signal Jammer" directly back.
After trying for a few minutes, Ian frowned because he felt an extremely strong repulsive resistance.
'As expected, it is much more difficult to use Time Magic in my universe.' Then, he continued his exploration. He felt that he was sailing in a long river purely composed of time. However, there were countless things hidden in this long river, which were firmly hindering his exploration.
What's worse is that he can't see, sense or detect these obstacles at all, which makes his navigation extremely difficult. At the same time, every second he stays in this long river of time must consume a huge amount of magic and energy Divine Power.
Fortunately, after more than an hour of suffering, he finally sensed his destination and quickly escaped from the long river of time. At that moment, Ian felt that countless unknown and huge knowledge spanned a long distance and was transmitted to his mind from an extremely familiar source.
"Successful," Ian opened his eyes and murmured excitedly. He quickly reviewed in his mind the top-secret blueprint that could create the perfect Signal Jammer. "The terrifying resistance just now... could it be the world's natural defense mechanism to prevent someone from wantonly tampering with time? If so, then the magic of Time Lord is much more special than I imagined."
According to the intelligence collected by Time Aurors, Time Lord can forcibly rewrite a timeline through time travel, which means that the Time Magic they use definitely has extremely unique and transcendent laws on some levels.
'We'll study this slowly later,' he thought to himself, and then turned his attention back to the business at hand. After thoroughly digesting all the contents of the drawing, Ian came to a conclusion: In order to ensure that this huge project is foolproof, he must immediately improve his rank.
In addition, in view of the current severe war situation, in order to prevent any uncontrollable variables, it is definitely the wisest choice to break through to the Eighth Tier position as soon as possible. Therefore, he did not hesitate and took action directly.
He teleported directly to a secret room. In the formation in the center of the room, a huge skeleton five meters high was lying quietly. Looking at Herpo's current miserable situation, Ian couldn't help but sigh, and then immediately started to take action.
In the past few years, Empire has conducted extremely in-depth research on Divine Power. In the process, Divine Power in Herpo's body has been almost completely drained. With these Based on the research data and the knowledge about Godhead obtained from the <KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!> universe, Ian completed this final step and completely drained Herpo.
Subsequently, he extracted Herpo's soul from the skeleton and performed an extremely precise operation on it. He erased all the memories and emotions of Herpo, performed a thorough preliminary purification of the soul, and properly sealed it. He planned to use it in the future, for example, to create a terrifying Eighth Tier and Golem.
In addition, Ian also perfectly preserved Herpo's "Divine Flame" and "Altar" for further in-depth research in the future. Finally, he drained the Bleach's divine blood and dug out the heart, brain, muscles and all bones - because these are all extremely precious strategic resources.
"Herpo the Foul", the "Bleach Herpo" who later stole Authority, finally completely disappeared into this Material World. Ian glanced at the black wizard who had been reduced to ashes, let out a long sigh, turned and left the room.
Next, Ian conducted a more in-depth purification of the extracted Divine Power, and finally brewed a batch of extremely heaven-defying "Soul-Enhancing Potion". Holding a bottle of Potions with bright golden liquid flowing in his hand, Ian carefully tested it several times, then raised his head and drank it all.
He closed his eyes and felt the intensity of his soul begin to soar at a crazy speed: the extreme pleasure that seemed to touch the universe Truth made him almost unable to help moaning. This transformation only lasted two hours. When it was all over, Ian felt that the whole world had become brighter and clearer in his eyes than ever before.
The speed of his thinking has reached an extremely terrifying level. If he concentrates his mental power to a high degree, it can even crush some top quantum computers in an instant. Although this god-like perception is intoxicating, he has not indulged in it because his transformation has not yet been completely completed.
He then drank the second bottle of Potions. However, this time, the target of Potions was no longer the soul, but his body. Due to the omnipotence and inclusiveness of Divine Power, he only needed to fine-tune the formula of Potions to ensure that it would work perfectly.
As the new version of Potions enters the body, Ian feels that his "Battle Aura" has experienced an exponential surge! The violent Battle Aura wandered wildly among his limbs and bones, tempering his body extremely domineeringly, forcibly raising it to an incredible new level. This process was extremely painful, and the heart-rending torture lasted for five hours.
After surviving the pain, Ian did not waste a second. He immediately activated the heaven-defying title given to him by "Akashic Records" - "Pathfinder". This ability allowed him to extract an extremely small trace of magic power from all Empire citizens who used the Arcane System he created to bless his body.
With the Arcane Empire's terrifying territory now spanning dozens or even hundreds of galaxies, there are countless Arcanists using the magic system he created. In an instant, Ian felt a vast sea of pure and huge magic power, like a cosmic storm, pouring crazily into his Magic Core!
He immediately guided this huge torrent of magic power into his Soul Dimension and perfectly stored it inside. In just one hour, Ian not only successfully broke through to the Eighth Tier position, but even became the kind of peak terrifying existence that can easily wipe out at least 30 galaxies with just one spell!
He opened his eyes from meditation and felt the terrifying power in his body that was about to burst the universe. He had an absolute confidence that as long as he hit the Snap at random, he could completely wipe out the entire Solar System in an instant. This absolute power that controls the life and death of all living beings is too easy to get lost.
However, Ian quickly suppressed the inner expansion and regained his absolute sanity. Because he knew very well that the taboos like Merlin or Solomon truly stood at the apex of the multiverse. Compared with existence, he is still as small as an ant. When he thinks of the Ultimate Holy War that is bound to come in the future, he knows that a mere Eighth Tier breakthrough does not qualify him to feel complacent at all.
Therefore, after calming down completely, he focused his attention on a new Authority that he had just awakened - "Apostle".
He can Grace 6 individuals, and as long as he has enough resources, he can make these 6 people reach the same level of power as him! Moreover, this Authority does not care at all what race these individuals belong to, nor does it care whether they have magic talents. These 6 people will become his "Apostle", his most loyal followers and followers.
The only limitation of this Authority is that Apostle's life will be completely bound to Ian. As long as Ian has a thought, or Ian himself encounters If something unexpected happens, they will die instantly. But from another perspective, as long as Ian is still alive and has enough resources, even if Apostle dies in battle, he can always perfect Resurrection.
'Is this the exclusive ability that Arcanist awakened after breaking through to Eighth Tier? It looks pretty good.' Ian is very satisfied with having six powerful, absolutely loyal and almost immortal followers.
Thinking of this ability, he immediately thought of his own Shikigami--Beidou. So, he immediately gave an order to Morgana, asking Beidou to bathe in the refined pure Divine Power to help it complete its ultimate transformation. If used properly, that Eastern Divine Dragon can definitely become a force multiplier for him.
Finally, Ian conducted several routine tests on his power. At this moment, he was extremely keenly aware of a serious anomaly in his soul. He immediately read a top-secret document about the Empire's recent discovery of the magical frontier. After reading the document, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed his soul.
"What's going on? The increase in my spiritual Divine Power brought about by absorbing knowledge is actually so small that it is almost negligible. This is definitely abnormal."
"Boss, I can answer this question for you," Morgana, a smart brain that looks like House-elf, suddenly said.
"You know?"
"Yes. Because you have touched your 'Soul Limit'."
"What do you mean?"
Morgana projected several of the latest top-secret data in front of him, and then began to explain, "A few years ago, Research Department of the Empire discovered that there are limits to the human soul. This extreme The limit tightly locks the upper limit of Highest Tier that they can naturally reach. For ordinary humans, this limit is the Sixth Tier position. In fact, most people cannot even touch the limit of their own souls.
"The 'Arcane Rune System' you created is perfect. It abruptly raised the limit to Seventh Tier. However, starting from the Eighth Tier position and going to higher levels, this system is completely powerless."
Ian frowned and quickly browsed the research report, and said, "I understand. Because my soul is special, my limit is raised to Eighth Tier; while others can only stop The step ahead of Seventh Tier. Rowena is also because she experienced Soul Mutation, so her limit has also reached the Eighth Tier level. This completely makes sense."
The specialness of his soul comes from the fact that he is a reincarnation across dimensions; and Rowena, after countless years of excruciating and crazy torture and experiments, he was lucky enough to complete a successful Soul Mutation.
"Is there a solution?"
"Imperial Family used clones to conduct a series of secret research. Finally, it was discovered that as long as a large enough Divine Power is injected, Soul Limit can be forcibly pushed to Eighth Tier position. But all current data show that if you want to break through to Ninth Tier position, another method may be needed. There are even theories that even using Divine Power, a higher-order god, will not help."
"This perfectly explains why things like 'faith' have become so prevalent and mainstream in our plane." Ian said coldly while rubbing his temples.
"You are right. Our current preliminary research results have shown that faith is another solution to this problem."
Ian hates Faith Power from the bottom of his heart, and is even less likely to consider using it on himself. Therefore, he must find a new way to break the situation that completely replaces Faith Power.